METHODIST CHURCH.

Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1281, 15 August 1922, Page 5

METHODIST CHURCH.

SERMON BY MAYOR OF HAMILTON,

(Contributed.)

Mr J. R. Fow (Mayor of Hamilton) paid a visit to Te Awamutu during the week end, and conlucted the morning service at the Methodist Church on Sunday. Mr Fow’s text was taken from Deut., chap. 3-3 v. 27: “ The Eternal God is thy refuge, and • nderneath are the Everlasting Arms.” The preacher showed himself familiar with his subject, and was quite at home in the putpit. Confidence in Divine power (said the preacher) wai a strong feature of the old Hebrew prophets. Moses was finishing his course and climbing up life’s steep lacuer, but about, and around him was .lie great thought of which the text s joke. The dearest wish of the human heart found expression here. We we~o living in a time of social and intellectual advance, but the needs of the human heart were the same Man in" st have help beyond his own. The preacher showed that the mad rush after pleasures and excitements did not satisfy. There was something else a reded. A sense of the Divine presence was the great stay of life, and this sense persisted while human nature remained the same. Men prophesied that Christianity would die. Voltaire declared that a hundred years would see .he end of all that pertained to GhrUnanity, but while Voltaire had gone Christ remained, and the house that Voltaire had lived in was to-day the headquarters of the Geneva Bible Sou e.y, and the machine he used to print infidel literature was printing now the word of God. Tom Payne and i teaching had to give place to the great revival of Wesley and Whitfield. In the stress and disappointment of life we could all find in the text the -omfort and solace we needed.

The hymns were well chosen and heartily sung, and the choir contributed the anthem ‘ Onward.” Miss Henderson presided at the organ.